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Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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The Politics of Privatization in Great Britain, Glenn B. Dorr III

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American Unions and Labor Management Participation Programs, B. Roy Engle

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The Role of Verification in Arms Control Negotiations from 1945-1980, Mark H. Eveleth

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Nation-Building and Political Instability in the First Republic of Nigeria, Todd Fach

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Bats in the Belfry but Not in the Courtroom, Elizabeth J. Fowerbaugh

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The Role of Nukes in Europe? An Assessment of the INF Debate, Matthew J. Gymer

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The Yugoslav Economic System and its Performance 1945-1980, Sissie T. Hadjiharalambous

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Corporate America and the PAC Power Game: How Corporations Play Power Politics with Political Action Committees, Andrew Martines

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Reagan and the Press: A Study of Marines in Lebanon and the Iran-Contra Situation, M. Anne McLean

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The Passage of Annex v Ocean Plastics Dumping Legislation, Robert D. Murphy

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Redevelopment in Boston: A Test of Peterson's Unlimited City, Carl F. Olson

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The Index: Judging Presidential Success, Graham Ashley Rayman

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Biology Meets Politics: Regulating Biotechnology, Peter C. Schmeck

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Limiting Campaign Advertising Expenditures as a Means of Encouraging More Citizens to Seek Office, Patrick J. Schmitz

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Urban Bias in Kenya: The Role of Harambee, Linda Stevenson

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Between Church and State: The Interaction of Religion and Politics in Nicaragua, Candia L. Sweet

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The Bureaucratic Cognitive Model of Decision Making, Kevin P. Walsh

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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Special Interest Media Campaigns: Effects on the Liability Insurance Crisis in Ohio, Randall B. Anderson

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The Impact of Socioeconomic Conditions on a Political System, Darell Biesheda

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I.M.T. Nuremberg and Tokyo: Equal Justice?, Tracy R. Callahan

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U.S. Policy Options Towards Nicaragua: An Inquiry into Strategies and Belief Systems, Michael S. Crowe

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Black House of Representatives Voting Cohesion: A Study of Black Consciousness, Edward Eberhart

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American Politics Outside of the Mainstream: A Political Analysis of Lyndon Larouche, Karl J. Eisenhower

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Capitalizing the Poor: A Study of Community Loan Funds and Their Impact in Boston and Philadelphia, John R. Fernandez

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The U.S. and Cuba, 1961: A Study in National Interest, Gary Hall

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The Effects of PAC Contributions on Congressional Voting Behavior, Edward O. Jones

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The Conservative Critique of Rationalism: Oakeshott and Gadamer, M. Harris Lucas

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The Sandinista Military Build-Up in Nicaragua: Creating Instability in Central America, Paul T. Savage

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The Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical and Political Assessment, Richard K. Stallsmith

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The Maintenance of Neutrality Between the East-West Bloc: The Case of Finland, Laura E. Stein

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Policy Implications of the Differential Impact of Systematic Factors which Influence the Criminal Behavior of Black and White Women: A Case Study of the State of Pennsylvania, Iris L. Wade

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The Political Theory of James Madison, Peter D. Westerman

Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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Petroleum Legislation in Ohio: Its Geologic and Legal Significance to the Petroleum Industry, Julie M. Ferguson

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Marx, Lenin, and the Soviet Union: An Analysis of the Communist Party, Kate Gibson

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Who Owns the Moon? An American View, John A. Heiman

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Linguistic Politics in India: Every Two Miles the Water doth Change and Every Four the Dialect, Gretchen P. How

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Unforeseen Intruders: How Unrelated Issues Rallied Traditional Sentiments Against the Equal Rights Amendment, Todd D. Kilpatrick

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Contending Theories of the United States' Relations with Latin America, Thomas L. Mason

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American-Soviet Rivalry in the Middle East: Prospects for an International Peace Conference, Kimberly A. Neeb

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Testing the Pervasiveness of an Ideology: Is there an Antifeminist Movement in the United States?, Scott R. Piepho

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The Failure of Implementation of Federal Educational Policy - 1945-1985: Implications for Achievement in the Black Community, Pamela Pinder

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U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America: Intervention Based on National Security as Opposed to "Dollar Diplomacy", Bradley P. Toman

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The Strategic Doctrine of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, Patrick A. Warny

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The Relationship between Governments and Visual Art: A Case Study of the Concentration Camp Art in Nazi Germany, Julie Denise Weiser

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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Yugoslav State-Building and the National Question, Mary R. Cermelj

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Alternative Feminist Theories for Political Change: Betty Friedan and Angela Davis, Laura L. Davis

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Incentives for Volunteer Political Activism in Presidential Campaigns, Tamula C. Drumm

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The Affects of Critical Realignment on the American Political System, William R. Hinchman III

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The Foreign Policies of Charles de Gaulle, 1958 to 1969, in a Bipolar and Interdependent World, Lawrence Read Junkin

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A Comparative Study of the Strategic Theories of M.A.D. and Flexible Response, James C. Lloyd

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A Critique of President Reagan's Foreign Policy Towards the Soviet Union, William T. McKeown

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Yugoslav Marxist Humanism, Scott Kenneth Mulford

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Third Party Response to the Proliferation of the Primary during the 1970s, William J. Nelander

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Feminist Methodological Alternatives: Toward a Transformation of Political Science, Cynthia J. Newcomer

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The Effects of Apartheid: An Examination of the Novels of Nadine Gordimer, Susan Prophater

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An Examination of Polish Civil Religion in Relationship to Church and State, Suzanne Sworniowski

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The International Court of Justice: Its Ineffectiveness in Resolving International Legal Conflicts, John C. L. Szekeres

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The Colonization of Black America: An Ideological Analysis of Colonialism at Home and Abroad, David R. Thompson

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The Electoral College: Federalism in Operation, Douglas S. Wiley

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Reinterpreting the Relationship between the Public and Private Spheres: An Alternative Perspective on the Separation of Church and State, Steve M. Allen

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Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy: A Comparison of the Professional and Public Press, Andrew Baird

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Appropriate Technology and the Economic Development of the Third World, Maria Germaine Carter

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An Analysis of the Applicability of the Theories of John Rawls and Robert Nozick to American Jurisprudence, John J. Del Propost

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The Political and Economic Impact of Multinational Corporations on South Africa, Phindiwe Gcaba

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Domestic Influences on U.S. Middle East Policy: A Study of AIPAC, Michael D. Hostetter

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Two Sides of the Same Coin: Two Western Views of Soviet Foreign Policy, Garth T. Katner

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The Evolution of American Nuclear Strategy, Reagan and Sufficient Assured Destruction, Kenneth James Tunnell

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

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An Analysis of the World Order Models Project: World Visions and World View, Krystin L. Buckey

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Marx and Weber on the Interface between Political Power and Technology in Advanced Capitalist Societies, Jairaj Santosham Daniel

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Science, Technology, and Polity: The Theories of Daniel Bell and Jurgen Habermas, Tod B. Edel

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Feminism: The Foundation of Peaceful Living, Cindy L. Greuenwald

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Justice William O. Douglas and his Propelling Influence on the Free Speech Doctrine, Karin C. Hauschild

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The Pipeline Controversy 1981-82: A Case Study in the Feasibility of Economic Sanctions, Claudia K. Hoffman

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Feminist Response to the Functionalist Ideology in American Women's Education, Julia Hill Klein

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Presidential Press Conferences Who Was The Most Effective? (Nixon, Ford, Carter), Robert S. Teets

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Individual Decision-Making Model on Local Public Policy Issues: A Case Study of Women on Public Water Fluoridation in Wooster, Ohio, Anastasia A. Tzavaras

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The Political Consultant: An Examination of Technique and Influence, Thomas A. Van Cleef

Theses/Dissertations from 1982

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Oil Exports and their Effect on the Political Development and the Economic Development and Growth of the Middle Eastern Oil-Exporting Countries, Vicki O. Tsiliopoulos

Theses/Dissertations from 1980

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The Supreme Court and the Press: How the Court-Press Relationship Aids the Democratic Process in America, William F. Anfang

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East Germany: Reconciliation to Division, John Preston Baker

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The Influence of Developing Demographic, Ideological, Economic and Political Changes in the United States Upon Support for Organized Labor in the House of Representatives: 1977-79, George S. Crisci

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The Presidential Nomination Process: A Descriptive Analysis of the Present System and Evaluation of Several Reform Proposals Using Theoretical Models of Party Functions, Beth Farnsworth

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National Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Policy, Gaye L. Hanke

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Les Relations Franco-Algériennes de 1945 a 1962, David F. Harrington
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Political Science

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The "Successors" of the People's Republic of China: How and Why Their Positions Change, Gregory C. Hook

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The United States and the Nonaligned Third World: 1945-1965 - A Study of the Dangers of Ambivalence and Ambiguity, Mark C. Matthias

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The Politics of School Desegregation in Warren, Ohio, David J. Maurice

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An Analysis of the Political Process and Economic Thinking That Created the Windfall Profit Tax, Henry Stanton McDonald Jr.

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Police, Politics And The Law: A Case Study Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wendy D. Myers

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The Political Assimilation of Black Americans, Eric V. Price

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Intervention: A Liberal Realist Versus a Marxist Perspective, Robert W. Reid

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Mirror, Mirror, in the House: The Effects of Televising the Gavel-to-Gavel Proceedings of the United States House of Representatives, Carol E. Rowan

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1979

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Prospects for Proliferation, Verne G. Burden
Department: Political Science

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Metternich and Kissinger: The Theory and Practice of Balance of Power Diplomacy, James C. Dann
Department: Political Science

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The Right To Know v. The Right To Privacy, Thomas A. Edson II
Department: Political Science

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Yom Kippur, A Skip to the Brink: The Superpowers in the October, 1973 Middle East War, James Everett
Department: Political Science

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Political Learning: Socialization Versus Structural Theories, Patricia C. Hean
Department: Political Science

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Justice For All: An Argument for the Appointment of Women to the Supreme Court of the United States, Jan Hungerford

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The Effects of Civics Courses on the Political Socialization of Wooster High School Students, Don Kilburn
Department: Political Science

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An Analysis of the Problems of Political Development in Iran, Arthur J. Kropp
Department: Political Science